<script type="text/javascript">
        $(function() {
            $('#jqgStarWarsCharacters').jqGrid({
                url: '@Url.Action("Characters", "StarWars")',
                datatype: 'json',
                mtype: 'POST',
                cmTemplate: { align: 'center' },
                colNames: [ 'Name', 'Gender', 'Height', 'Weight', 'Birth Year', 'Skin Color', 'Hair Color', 'Eye Color' ],
                colModel: [
                            { name: 'Name' },
                            { name: 'Gender', sortable: false, formatter: demo.jqGrid.character.genderFormatter },
                            { name: 'Height', summaryType: 'avg' },
                            { name: 'Weight', summaryType: 'avg' },
                            { name: 'BirthYear' },
                            { name: 'SkinColor', sortable: false, formatter: demo.jqGrid.character.skinColorFormatter },
                            { name: 'HairColor', sortable: false, formatter: demo.jqGrid.character.hairColorFormatter },
                            { name: 'EyeColor', sortable: false, formatter: demo.jqGrid.character.eyeColorFormatter }
                          ],
                caption: 'StarWars Characters',
                grouping: true,
                groupingView: {
                    groupField: ['Gender'],
                    groupDataSorted: true,
                    groupColumnShow: [false],
                    groupSummary: [true]
                },
                footerrow: true,
                userDataOnFooter: true,
                jsonReader: { repeatitems: false, id: 'Id' },
                pager: $('#jqgpStarWarsCharacters'),
                rowNum: 100,
                sortname: 'Id',
                sortorder: 'asc',
                viewrecords: true,
                height: '100%'
            });
        });
    </script>

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            services.AddControllersWithViews();
            services.AddRazorPages();
            services.AddControllers()
                .AddNewtonsoftJson();
        }
public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IWebHostEnvironment env)
        {
            if (env.IsDevelopment())
            {
                app.UseDeveloperExceptionPage();
            }

            app.UseHttpsRedirection();
            app.UseStaticFiles();

            JqGridRequest.ParametersNames = new JqGridParametersNames() { PagesCount = "npage" };

            app.UseRouting();
            app.UseEndpoints(endpoints =>
            {  
                endpoints.MapDefaultControllerRoute();
                endpoints.MapControllerRoute(
                    name: "default",
                    pattern: "{controller=JavaScript}/{action=Basics}");

                endpoints.MapControllerRoute(
                   name: "default2",
                   pattern: "{controller=StarWars}/{action=Characters}/{id?}");
         
                endpoints.MapRazorPages(); 
            });
        }